----- Original Message ----- From: Cotty Subject: Re: Article on Kodak
> IMO Kodak should put great effort into marketing their own brand of > digital media storage, and get them on shelves now. Cheap and cheerful > Compact Flash cards that hold three dozen good-res shots with the words > 'Kodak Electronic Film or whatever plastered all over them, at about the > same cost as film is now. Then Joe P+S can buy them, shoot the kids, drop > them off for printing, get them back with prints, and drop them into a > drawer, just like he would with the (old-style) negs. Why re-use CF > cards? If they're cheap enough, and sold everywhere, they'll sell > millions eventually. If Grandma wants some prints later, he can just take > the CF card back for those, just like he would with negs. No computer, no > fiddling, and the processing houses keep going. Old habits die hard with > most people :-) Whats the life expectancy of the information on a digital media card? Don't they have a weenie little battery to keep them working? 'twould be sad for the people who think the flash card is just as stable as film.... William Robb - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org .
